Applying the Lindy effect [1]: after half a century of SQL we can expect it to survive for at least as long.
Disruption/displacement of SQL is like attempting to replace email. It's not going to happen. At best an alternative technology can carve out a small niche (and there's nothing wrong with that).
That wikipedia article was super interesting, I'd never heard of the Lindy Effect before. A bit difficult to wrap my noggin around but really fascinating to think about.
Read the books of Nassim Taleb. They are full of this kind of interesting stuff. Sadly, he blocked me on twitter back when I asked him why he had a paid subscription for a self-described communist hardcore-Putinist hardcore-Antisemite :/
Applying the Lindy effect [1]: after half a century of SQL we can expect it to survive for at least as long.
Disruption/displacement of SQL is like attempting to replace email. It's not going to happen. At best an alternative technology can carve out a small niche (and there's nothing wrong with that).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect